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How do we build a winning team? Everyone knows the old adage of buy low, sell high but how exactly does that look over the course of a season? To answer the question well, we need to look at how poolies' perceptions vary over the year.
It turns out that perceptions follow a very predictable pattern. Once we identify that pattern, it's much easier to position our teams to derive value from it. Taking advantage of this "perception cycle" is a very good way to accelerate a rebuild or just to make your keeper team stronger as the years go on.
In the end, this all comes back to supply and demand... specifically, positioning your teams to be selling certain commodities when they are in demand.
Each period of the year has its own particular characteristics, so let's look at them one by one.
April-June: Playoff madness
Every year there are players who step up above their normal production levels during the postseason. They raise their profile, and as a result can be overvalued. Fantasy hockey GMs use the line of thinking "He stepped up bigtime during the playoffs, so hopefully he'll carry that production into next year."
A few heroes from playoffs past are Ryan Malone (2007/08), Danny Briere (2009/10), Ville Leino (2009/2010), and Johan Franzen (2007/08 through 2009/10). None of them replicated their playoff scoring pace in the following regular season.
It's difficult to predict which players will surprise in the playoffs, but if you've got a good playoff player on your roster that you'd like to move, the best time of the year to do it is following a great playoff performance.
June: Prospect madness
The 2011 draft class will be reaching its peak of hype, so every GM and their dog will want to get first round prospect draft picks or the top 2011 prospects. Irrationally so. We all do it. Ideal trade bait for June are 1st round prospect picks or the 2011 draft class themselves. At the time of this writing, it's probably a little late to be acquiring these types of assets, but come late June it is definitely the time to sell.
July: Free agent madness
In July, fantasy hockey GMs take a look at which players have changed teams, and the interpretation is virtually universally "OMG Player X is now going to be lining up alongside Player Y! That'll be good for his production!" Player X almost never lives up to that. A perfect example from last year would be Horton in Boston. This period starts a little before July 1 (once the draft is done) and continues until the start of the season.
A good way to approach this is to target players that will be going UFA during the season, with a view to moving them when the time is right.
August/September: Youth breakout madness
The end of summer or early September is not the time to be acquiring young players, because that's what everyone else is trying to do. As Jeff Angus constantly points out, it's a faulty assumption that many GMs fall into to predict that young players will take a step forward each year simply because they are young and "therefore" improving.
Too many examples from past years to name... Kostitsyns, Little, etc, etc. When the hype starts to reach a fever pitch in early September (OMG there's a big breakout coming!!!! LOLZ!!1!!!1!!!), the time is right to SELL SELL SELL. How were GMs valuing Paajarvi last September? It was much higher than he showed this year and will likely show next year.
November: Fast start projection madness
A player that has dominated the first 5-6 weeks of the season is often unrealistically projected to maintain that pace for the entire 82 game schedule. Dig back through the forums if you like at valuations for Kopitar in late November 2009 or Stamkos in late November 2010. Both were perceived as stone cold locks for 100 points and GMs were paying through the nose for them.
It's very tough to predict which players will do this from year to year. It's probably even tougher to look yourself in the mirror and have the guts to flip them when the hype is going nuts and they're just sitting there on your roster, but that's the way to improve your team.
December/January: World Junior Hype Madness
Angus again is here. Not too much more to add to his thoughts.
February: Trade deadline madness
How many people were drooling over the prospect of Vokoun landing on a team like Washington leading up to this year's trade deadline? This phenomenon happens every year. Even players that get moved rarely go on to produce huge numbers down the stretch, yet every year poolies fall into the same "Player X will get a big boost through a change of scenery!" mindset.
Tying it all Together
So what drives these changes in perceived value? The common thread is media coverage. As much as we'd like to think we're dispassionate fantasy hockey pros, what's in the media really does affect how we value players. Look at TSN's (or any other network that covers hockey) programming through the year. They have a tried-and-true common formula:
- April-June: Playoff analysis – highlights of great playoff performers
- June: Draft previews – in-depth looks at "the next great players"
- Late June/July: Free agent previews – who is moving around and who will they play with?
- August/September: Season previews – breakouts, sleepers, etc
- November/December: Season-to-date recaps – profiles of players with fast starts
- Late December/January: World Juniors – again more of "the next wave"
- February: Trade deadline – who might move and who might they play with?
The trick to really improving your team is to anticipate these fairly predictable swings in perceived player value -- and it's typically the same "type" of player every year at the same time -- by moving your assets strategically in advance of those particular periods before the mentality of other GMs has shifted accordingly.
If you've got a fairly competitive league, you have to be craftier about implementing this approach, but it works because most people are rather susceptible to these types of influences. The trick is to seek out value that goes against the grain of the of market – when GMs are disproportionally focused on prospects, the demand for prospects increases so you'll create more value on your team by moving prospects and targeting other types of players that will have a higher perceived value at a different time during the year. If you can stay ahead of the "perception curve" then you'll find that you can consistently build better teams by always having assets that are in demand.
A final note: there's also no substitute for pick up "left for dead" players very cheaply in the summer before the season starts. Leading into 2010/2011, players like Brent Burns and Tim Thomas were available for pennies on the dollar because of injury issues and young talent nipping at their heels. Now their values are much higher. Then again, so were players like Andrei Kostitsyn...
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10/10. Loved it.
Freddy said:
I guess the inverse works, but opposite of building your team for the future...you're help securing a win for the short term.
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Nov-Dec....slow starts;
Dec -Jan...rookies review;
Feb - Mar RFA's who need a contract
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It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker have established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth.
The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space....
Now a commander in the Rebel Alliance, Luke leads an attack against Imperial forces who have discovered the secret Rebel base on Hoth. Luke then journeys to Dagobah to seek out Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed Obi-Wan. With Yoda's help, Luke prepares to confront Darth Vader, who has set a trap for the Jedi-in-training at Bespin's Cloud City.
Princess Leia coordinates the evacuation of the Rebel forces from Hoth, past an Imperial blockade. Narrowly escaping capture herself, she steals away with Han Solo, Chewbacca and C-3PO aboard the Millennium Falcon, where she will confront her true feelings for the Corellian captain.
After serving with the Rebels for a time, Han Solo announces that he must leave the Alliance to pay back his debt to Jabba the Hutt. His plans are sidelined, however, when the Empire invades the Rebel base on Hoth and Princess Leia becomes a reluctant passenger aboard the Millennium Falcon. Tailed by bounty hunter Boba Fett, Solo, Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO arrive at Bespin's Cloud City, where they come face to face with Darth Vader.
Yoda has trained Jedi for over 800 years. Hidden from the Empire on the swamp planet of Dagobah, the Jedi Master deepens Luke's understanding of the Force and prepares him for his inevitable confrontation with Darth Vader.
The roguish administrator of Bespin's Cloud City, Lando Calrissian offers refuge to Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and C-3PO in their escape from the Empire. Calrissian is soon exposed as a double-dealer, though, forced to choose between the shady assurances of Darth Vader or loyalty to his old friend, Han Solo.
Reputed as the deadliest bounty hunter in the galaxy, Boba Fett is hired by Darth Vader to hunt down the Millennium Falcon. Fett is also working for Jabba the Hutt, who wants Solo's debt to him paid with his life.
The All-Terrain Armored Transports, or walkers, are gigantic Imperial gun platforms dispatched onto the surface of Hoth by Darth Vader to destroy the Rebel's main power generator.
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Cloud City hovers in the clouds over the planet Bespin, an elegant mining platform which harvests the valuable Tibanna gas found in the planet's upper atmosphere. Lando Calrissian is the administrator of the facility, overseeing the mining operation as well as protecting the workers and residents that make Cloud City their home.


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A few days ago, I managed to get up close and personal in Shanghai with one of the most interesting concept cars the world has yet seen. SAIC's Yez concept car is the first automobile, concept or otherwise, that's ever been conceived to have a negative carbon footprint. That is, it removes more pollution than it creates.
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Office Next Moscow
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Cover story: Alain Berteau
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I found myself pawing through the cookbook section of the downtown Barnes and Noble. I had been looking for recipes for the Holiday season and what better way to become inspired than to see what Martha, Craig and others have done previously.
As I perused through a fourth book of Holiday recipes, a small voice started speaking to me.
"There's something wrong here. Look closer at the recipes."
I shook my head and blinked. I refocused my eyes and started reading the recipes with more intensity.
Wassail, Egg Nog, Plum Pudding, Fruitcake; all of these recipes flew by my eyes. Something was indeed wrong. But what?
I looked at the ingredient lists, and the reality became clear — All of the recipes that had traditionally contained some measure of brandy, rum or ale now sat before me, neutered. Even a recipe for glühwein, which has the German word for wine in its name, told us to recreate the recipe with mulled tea sans wine.
How did this happen? Have some of us become so frightened of alcohol that we've removed it as an option in cooking? Or is it simple ignorance of how these recipes originated?
I can respect the fact that some people don't like the taste of alcohol. But for me, the idea of egg nog without rum is as silly as tofurkey — A cheap recreation of a dish for someone who doesn't like what the traditional recipe represents.
Me? I like spirits. I believe them to be some of the most complicated tastes in the world. They add a uniqueness to many recipes that are impossible to recreate. To remove them from a recipe is akin to removing garlic or curry from a recipe.
I don't think there's a concerted effort here, but I do find the lack of Christmas recipes without spirits disheartening. Trust me when I say that those of you drinking wassail made only from apple juice, or having a fruitcake that hasn't been drowned in brandy are missing out on something exquisite.
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If you've gone to college, or are of a certain age, or do a lot of work on a drafting or drawing table, then you know the agony of trying to find a decent adjustable lamp. The springs, the cantilevers, the cranky clamps to hold it to the surface–it's a pain in the neck. I don't know about you, but I've never found a decent adjustable lamp. So maybe the Harvey lamp is what I need.
Project Title: Harvey LED task lamp
Status: Active
Closing Date for Funding: 12/14/2012
URL of the Project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/962568604/harvey-led-task-lamp
From the Creatives: Harvey LED task lamp combines state of the art LED lighting with a unique new fully adjustable joint.
Firstly the light; inspired by surgeons lamps, super bright LEDs are fixed on an aluminium heat sink in the centre of the head, light is diffused through a frosted glass disc and reflected off the curved metal reflector giving a well-directed even light source (avoiding the harshness often associated with LED lighting). The lamp is named after William Harvey, the English physician who described completely the circulation of blood in the body.
The joints; precision die-cast aluminium with neodymium magnets housed inside, they allow a massive range of movement with a light touch. Simply twist, push or pull the head to where you need more light, that's it, the joints hold firm, no springs, no cantilevers.
In some situations super bright is not always best, a dimmer is included so Harvey is at home in the home.


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2014 Kid's Fun Run Design Contest
In celebration of our 40th (Ruby) Anniversary event, the theme for our 2014 Fun Run is "Red Ruby Racers". The winning design is featured on our 2014 Kids Run shirts and the winner will lead off the run on race day, Saturday April 5, 2014.
Our 2014 design contest winners were announced on December 9th. The winning design was created by Gage Bassett. His original design and the T-Shirt ready version are shown below. 2nd place went to Marisa Westall and 3rd place to Liberty Osti, all of Seal Beach. Our congratulations to all the kids who participated and our winners.
Click HERE to see a short video on our program!
The Run Seal Beach Kids Fun Run is a unique program for children up to ten (10) years of age because we include supervised running and a safe Fun Zone area at the finish line. Guides run alongside the kids, ensuring all children complete the course. Parent's are welcome to be on the course with their child, but children must be registered to be on the course. Children must be at least 3 years of age or older to be in the Fun Zone to insure proper supervision and safety standards are met. .
Our Kid's Fun Zone is a unique attribute of our race that makes us stand out among all others. The Fun Zone is a Kid Safe, secure area, with more than a 6-to-1 ratio of supervision. This program is only available to children who have registered to run the 1K race (over the age of 3) . Kids are entertained from the time they complete their run with activities such as games, face painting, crafts, and more. We provide a Gluten and Nut Free Zone.
We provide custom security banding for all children who will be in our Fun Zone. This allows parents to run the 5K or 10K while their child runs the 1K and the child is secure until parents finish their run. No child is released from the Kid's Fun Zone without proper matching identification.
Our custom Kids' 1K t-shirt is designed especially for our youth runners. The design is done by a local grade school student who leads off the race with our Mascot -- Sammy Seal.
To ensure a safe and fun event for all, we ask that parents read and follow these guidelines:
- Parents are allowed to run with their child in the fun run, but we have Fun Run Route Guides, if you'd prefer to save your energy for the 5/10K. Make sure you check in with one of the guides at the front of the kids run line by 7:20 AM.
- If you are running alongside a child with another child in a stroller, please make sure you stay to the side or back so you don't trip others.
- Pick up your packet the day before at the Marina Center. We will be open for packet pick up from 3-8 pm.
- Review with your child the night before the race route (your may want to drive by the route if you are able) and the location of the fun run. Make a family plan for meeting and don't change the plan!
- For best identification, please have your child wear their Kids 1K race t-shirt and race number! If it's cold that morning, have them wear a long sleeve t-shirt underneath their race shirt.
- The I.D. wristbands are your child's ticket into the fun zone and child must be over the age of 3. No exceptions. Please make sure you prepare your wristband according to the guidelines in the packet.
- Kids 1K Fun Run starts promptly at 7:30 a.m. so be at the starting line no later than 7:20 a.m. to get your child in line!
- Have your child eat a light breakfast and drink some water early in the morning.
- Parents must pick up their children at the Fun Zone by 9:30 a.m.
- Our volunteers are ready to provide a fun time for all the kids in the fun zone with crafts and games! We'll have water, dye-free popsicles and fruit too!


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Hundreds of women celebrated the seventh annual Bras for a Cause auction at Sol Blu Lounge in downtown Iron Mountain on Thursday night. This year the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Community Federal Credit Union volunteers took over organization of the event which has become a popular tradition in raising public awareness of breast cancer.
Local "bra artisans" decorate and donate bras, and they are auctioned off to the delight of the crowd.
The top bra "The Singing Sisters," sold for $210. It was designed by JoAnn Poncino and was made in honor of Margaret Thibert.
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Kingsford Roller Derby Girls modeled 100 bras as Col. Dan Samson auctioned all of them off. The Iron Mountain bar was packed for the auction.


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The Story Of My Life
Vikki Morris - 04/03/2014
great improver dance and it's 1D, can't ask for anymore
Dance Amor
Vikki Morris - 04/03/2014
good dance and it definately sounds like enrique, the hitch ball step is a bit of a struggle though until you get used to it
Young Blood
M Louise - 04/03/2014
Gorgeous nightclub that perfectly matches a haunting song by Sophie Ellis Bextor. Big round of applause from the dancers when this was first danced. It really is a joy to dance and if you enjoy nightclubs it is one to definitely learn. Big thumbs up and surely chart bound.
Somewhere Only We Know (aka The Bear And The Hare)
M Louise - 04/03/2014
Really popular with the dancers, another hit in the making for Alison & Peter. Really interesting choreography as always from P&A. A terrific upbeat version of the song sung by Lily Allen in the John Lewis Christmas advert had many in the class singing along. The final sections are the trickiest but once mastered everything just comes together. Big thumbs up!
Same Thing Happened To Me
M Louise - 04/03/2014
Fun and easy dance to a catchy song which the improvers class enjoyed. No tags or restarts too. Thumps up.
Walk Alone
Linda Garrett - 04/03/2014
Great dance which flows beautifully to the music. Good step combination which keeps it interesting. Well done to Kate and Robbie
Fall In Love
Linda Garrett - 04/03/2014
Fun dance enjoyed by everyone, much laughter with the rocking chair and pulling faces etc. Once taught to everybody will organise a charity day to benefit LDF
Somewhere Only We Know (aka The Bear And The Hare)
Vicki Bone - 04/03/2014
OMG what have they done to Keen's beautiful song.
Somewhere Only We Know (aka The Bear And The Hare)
J Myers - 04/03/2014
after teaching this to a good intermediate class the review was >> some of the steps are quite obviously used from dances in the charts at this time & that parts of sections 7 & 8 did not have a that usual A & P NATURAL FLOW >> PLEASE DONT SHOOT THE MESSENGER > the music is GOOD & the floor was full for the re-cap at the end of the evening. i am sure it will be hit inspite of my dancers honest review
All I Can Say
Christine Wallace - 03/03/2014
This two wall dance is a must for all Intermediate dancers. The varied sequences of steps flow well to the music. Interesting but not difficult. Great track. Highly recommended.
Mixed Up
Mike Parkinson - 03/03/2014
Great little 64/2 (No Tags - Restart - Bridges - Transition -or anything else) To a remix of one of my all time favourite dance tracks "Word Up" but this time a good copy by "Little Mix" which is due out for a week or so. So try the original by "Cameo" which slightly longer, and a tad slower. The dance fits the music perfectly some nice step combination in the latter section. Nothing to complicated, well worth a look at and well worth the teach. If any problems find the music, please email - email@example.com and I'll put you on the right track where to obtain either version. Nice one Pat & Carrie Ann, should do well.
Eye To Eye
Wendy Annall - 02/03/2014
Really enjoyed this dance by Maggie, another straight through dance so we can enjoy the lovely song by James Blunt. Maggie's woven her magic yet again. Put on your 'to do' list straightaway.
All I Can Say
Wendy Annall - 02/03/2014
Frankie j sings a fab song here and the dance is perfect to it. It makes a nice change not to be doing millions of & steps, restarts, tags etc. A lovely pace dance straight through so you can really enjoy the music. Good work Simon&Rachael 10/10
Boo Hoo Hoo
Mike Parkinson - 01/03/2014
First teach at this mornings class, 1st March (White Rabbit & bloody big one for this dance).What can you say about this new PandA advanced , testing to say the leased. The teach isn't too bad. But putting it into practice is certainly a challlange. The transisions parts need a little consentration. Need to dance a few more times to perfect the transition parts, Still found the dance great fun & very rewarding, not for the faint hearted. Thanks again PandA - Hope it does well!!
Walk Alone
Elaine Hornagold - 01/03/2014
Love this dance by Kate & Robbie, an easy teach with two restarts, can't believe I've only just taught it! Popular with all my classes. Sure fire hit!


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Serena Pierce '15 is a Comparative Literature and Linguistics double-major from New Jersey. Their research will be on the comparative linguistics of Walserdeutsch, an endangered Germanic dialect, as spoken in the Kanton Wallis, Switzerland, where the dialect originated, and Vorarlberg, Austria, where some of the speech community migrated. Their summer will be spent in Berlin improving their German in preparation for fieldwork to be conducted while abroad in Munich in the spring of 2014. Some of their other academic interests include general socio- and historical linguistics, the phonology/cherology and semantics of signed languages, translation theory, prosody in Romantic-era poetry, and stylistics of Ovid's poetry. Their mentor is Dr Brook Lillehaugen, Assistant Professor in the Tri-College Department of Linguistics, and they will be consulting with Azade Seyhan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature.
Chandrea Peng '15 is an Independent Education Major from Framingham, MA. She will be researching how schools facilitate – or fail to facilitate – development of identity, especially in students for whom the American education system is a challenge – language-wise, culture-wise, and class-wise. She is also interested in exploring the themes of memory and identity in refugees and their children. This summer she will be doing a case management internship at the International Institute of New England in hopes of helping refugees and immigrants become active participants in the social, political, and economic richness of American life. Chandrea will conduct her research under the guidance of Professor David Karen of the Sociology Department and will be studying abroad in Copenhagen in the spring of 2014.
Orsola Capovilla-Searle '15 is from Cuernavaca, Mexico and is a Mathematics and Physics double major. She is interested in researching a type of mathematical knot known as Legendrian knots. She is also interested in studying Lagrangian cobordisms bounded by Legendrian knots.
Whitney P. Lopez '15: From Brooklyn, NY by way of Philadelphia, PA, Whitney P. López is a McBride scholar and an Anthropology major with a minor in Africana Studies. The focus of their research was originally to analyze the social and cultural factors which affect the job opportunities for women of color living in North Philadelphia. The lack of substantial information on Southeast Asian women prompted Whitney to shift their focus to the social and cultural factors that contribute to the underemployment of Southeast Asian women living in American cities. This summer will consist of compiling empirical data about Southeast Asians living in large cities across the United States.
Esteniolla Maitre '15 is a Posse scholar from Boston, MA and an English major with double minors in Education and Africana Studies. Under the mentorship of Professor Linda-Susan Beard of the English department, Esteniolla will pursue research that looks at the relationship between students from inner-city, public school backgrounds and English, as both a language and discipline, in higher education. This summer, she will be in Dalun, Ghana exploring how and in what spaces young people and adults use English.
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Genesis Bui '14 is from Pomona, CA and is a Spanish Major. She will be researching the literature of Migration and Immigration in Latin and Hispanic literature. She will be interning this summer with Haverford's CPGC Partnership Program. She will be working in Mexico City with the Casa de los amigos, a Quaker guesthouse for refugees from Central and South America, and other places around the world. There she will focus her studies on the Central and South American perspective. While on the other hand, Genesis also plans to study abroad in Granada, Spain in order to focus her studies on the African and Asian perspective. Her mentor and major advisor is Professor Maria Cristina Quintero.
Krystal Caban '14 is an English major from Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in examining the popularity of, and paranoia surrounding narratives of "passing" in literature and film. She is also interested in how characters proactively or reactively react to its perceived threat. Krystal is conducting her project under the guidance of Professor Linda Susan Beard of the English department.
Madiha Irfan '14 of West Chester, PA is majoring in Religion with a
concentration in Middle East and Islamic Studies. Her mentors are
Professors Travis Zadeh and Tariq al-Jamil. Madiha's main academic
interest is the "gender jihad" and its critical and creative engagement
with Qur'an, hadith, and jurisprudence for gender justice in various
Muslim worlds. For her project, Madiha plans on exploring premodern
Muslim women's participation in religious education, focusing on female
hadith transmitters. Anyone with questions or comments about Madiha's
project is welcome to e-mail her at email@example.com.
Karina Siu '14 is from Wichita Falls, Texas and is a Political Science major and Economics minor. She is interested in political economy and public policy formation. Karina's research will focus on ways in which capitalism informs a state's political structure and its effect on public policies and citizens. While attempting to have a broad comparative look at different states and regions, the majority of her research will focus on the United States, Germany, China, and Russia. With help from her mentor, Professor Carol Hager, Karina hopes to address the following questions: How are those marginalized in society affected by public policies and how much is this effect attributed to the role of capitalism in society? Ultimately, she hopes her research will shed more light on the shortcomings of public policies, possible areas for development, and more discussion for the increased effectiveness of policies and protection for these subjugated groups.


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SCOTUScast 7-3-08 featuring Chris Bryant
United States v. Santos
July 3, 2008A. Christopher Bryant
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SCOTUScast 7-3-08 featuring Chris Bryant - MP3
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On June 2, 2008, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Santos, holding that the word "proceeds," as used in the federal money-laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. §1956(a)(1)(A)(i), denotes only the profits of criminal activity, not the gross receipts thereof. Professor Chris Bryant of the University of Cincinnati College of Law discusses the case.
Oral Argument - October 3, 2008:
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Fallow deer hunt offer in Bulgaria
Our offer for fallow deer hunt in Bulgaria is:
4 night stays, 3 hunting days with prices as follows:
For groups of minimum 2 people - 850/per person
Included in the price:
-Preparation of all necessary documents (game shooting license with
month validity, veterinary certificate, export documents);
-Transportation from the airport to the hunting ground and back;
-Accommodation in double rooms;
-Full board breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as soft drinks
hot drinks;
-Organization of the hunt (local guide, drivers,);
-Four-wheel drive vehicles during the hunt;
-Stuffing of trophies.
Not included
-Accommodation in a single room plus 20 a person/day;
-Alcoholic drinks.
-renting a rifle-50 Eur/day
-Tips and personal expenses
-the trophy, per price list:
Helia hunting | Trophy price
You can hunt with your own rifle,all you need is European gun pass
and valid hunting tickets from your country.
For more details don't hesitate to contact me.
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Some news and notes regarding prospects around the league...
Marc-Andre Gragnani was scratched Wednesday night and has opened the door for Mike Weber to take his spot in Buffalo's top six. With only four assists and five shots, Gragnani has been a disappointment so far this season. Weber was -2 Wednesday allowing Gragnani back into the lineup on Friday, but the message has been sent - produce or sit.
Adam Larsson was feeding Kovalchuk on the point on New Jersey's second power play unit Wednesday night. Larsson gets too much ice time (24 minutes) and is too good a player to be considered strictly a defensive defenseman at this point despite his single point in 11 games. Grab this guy, because one day he's going to get at least 40 points. It won't take long for him to get there - two more seasons.
David Rundblad's outlet pass to Colin Greening vs. the Leafs last Saturday night was a sign of things to come. Rundblad frequently looks for the "long bomb" pass and was trying to execute them throughout the entire rookie tournament in Oshawa in mid September. This is going to be his trademark. He has two points in his last five games and is starting to get comfortable. Look for his point totals to increase in the near future. He's getting the ice time (16 minutes), frequently playing with Chris Phillips.
Not only does Gabriel Landeskog have seven points in 12 games, he's a classy kid. He shrugged off the Andy Sutton hit to his head by saying he shouldn't have left himself in a vulnerable position and that it was partly his own fault. That's the kind of character that you need to be an NHL star.
Carter Aston has nine goals and 13 points in 10 AHL games. Too bad he's stuck behind Martin St.Louis, Steve Downie, Brett Connolly and Adam Hall on Tampa's right side. It's a good sign though. If he keeps up this level of production, Tampa won't be able to ignore him for much longer.
Where is the love for Luke Adam this season? Yes, Nugent-Hopkins is three years younger but he is all over the media, while outside of Buffalo you don't hear much about Adam. Both have 11 points in 12 games, they both have a similar number of shots, both play on their respective team's top lines, but Adam gets almost two minutes of ice time less than the "Nuge." Add to that a 40 percent face off percentage which is significantly higher than RNH's 28 percent and you have a real battle for top rookie so far. Don't overlook Adam, despite the age difference he has been a revelation.
Another player not getting much love is Jake Gardiner. Outside of Toronto his name isn't being mentioned much, but he's clearly one of the Leafs' top four defensemen right now. His static defensive game isn't great but he's great on the rush because of his dynamic skating and he's been able to put up some decent numbers while logging 18 minutes of ice time each game. His five points is the most among rookie defenders and although he's -1, he sees a lot of ice time against top six forwards.
Kyle Palmieri has eight goals in six games and is looking like he belongs in the NHL. If Andrew Gordon or Devante Smith-Pelly falter, and each have only one point, look for Palmieri to get a second chance in Anaheim.
It'll be interesting to see what the Leafs do once they run into a scoring slump. There is no room for October's AHL player of the month on the Leafs roster right now, but Leaf fans will be screaming for Joe Colborne when the goals dry up. Unless Tim Connolly is injured (a likely possibility), Tyler Bozak or Matthew Lombardi might find themselves in the press box when the Leafs hit hard times and management wants to see what Colborne can do. Something is going to give here.
Jiri Tlusty, 23, has earned his playing time with Eric Staal. Tlusty, 6'0, 210 pounds was playing good two way hockey on Carolina's third line, before being promoted recently into Carolina's top six alongside Staal. Tlusty is currently fifth in points on the team with six and until last night's abysmal -3 was third on the team in plus minus. He has a long way to go to reach his 30-goal potential many in Toronto saddled him with, but he's moving in the right direction.
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Dallas power forward Matt Fraser is off to a banner AHL start with eight goals in 10 games to go along with 21 PIMs. Fraser, 21, is a tough customer who can score goals in bunches. He potted 36 in 66 games for Kootenay last season and racked up 115 minutes in penalties. He's not fancy and tends to go through people, but his 6'2, 207 frame allows him to do that. His shot is his major weapon, but his defensive game has to improve as he has the second worst plus minus on the Texas Stars. Watch his goal totals and see if he can maintain his pace as the third leading goal scorer in the AHL. If so, he could get a call.
Jason Garrison, 26, was a 40 point AHL defenseman three years ago but had issues with his defensive game. He needed to learn how to play defense and needed to mature after a three year stint at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. After some time in the minors and then a full NHL season, Garrison is now a leader on the back end for the Panthers. Garrison plays 26 minutes a game, sees power play time and has a heavy point shot. He's sixth on the team in plus minus after a bad start but leads Florida in goals with five. With his quick start he has an outside shot at 35 points and would be a good depth defenseman in deep fantasy leagues.
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Owen said:
As for that pass by Rundblad. Yes it was a thing of beauty but lets face it it should never should have made it that far. Brutal play by Leafs defence. Thats what made it look so good.
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He's the closest thing I've seen to Mike Green since, well, Mike Green. If Gardiner can ever develop a laser of a wrister/one-timer like Green has, look out.
Stuart McDonald said:
Dean Youngblood said:
"Gardiner will be on the ice for an even strength goal against tonight - he's not mature defensively. Aulie won't be gone long."
"Jake Gardiner team worst -2. Now it starts. When are people going to wake up and realize this kid isn't good in his own zone. #Minors"
Pick a side Next you will be hyping Brett MacLean
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Part 1: Mathematical Basis
1-1. Farming Quantified
1-2. No Such Thing as Half a MP Level
Part 2: The Goods
2-1. MF/GF Chart
2-2. MF/GF Conclusions
2-3. Keyfarming Chart
2-4. Keyfarming Conclusions
1-1. Farming Quantified
Before I get into the results, let's talk about how farming should be properly measured.
Farming consists of two essential types of events. One of these is DPSing, the act of actually attacking monsters to make them drop loot. The other, far broader category, we'll label downtime, a blanket term to cover anything that isn't DPSing. Running from a dead monster pack to a living one, kiting (maneuvering around living monsters for survivability purposes), deaths, recharging (waiting for cooldowns to reset or resources to regenerate), selling items to merchants, stash dumps, and even putting found items up for auction are all considered downtime. However, only serious time counts; inefficiency caused by not really playing the game with your full attention does not count towards this definition of downtime.
Unfortunately, the line between downtime and DPSing isn't quite that clear-cut. Killing white mobs doesn't have the same magic find potential as killing elites, and the time spent DPSing before achieving 5-stack valor is not as farming-effective as time spent on 5-stack. For the moment, we will assume that such activities count as partial downtime; finding the exact coefficient would be a subject for later inquiry.
Let F equal your farming efficiency, m equal your magic find, gold find, or the key-find modifier (depending on what you're looking for), x equal the health of the monsters at MP0, h equal the monster power health modifier, d equal DPS (damage per second), and w equal downtime in seconds.
F = m/[(hx/d)+w]
The interesting thing about the Monster Power system is that many of these variables remain at least somewhat constant. The premise of all of the following math is: downtime remains constant moving from one monster level to another. In regards to time spent moving from one mob to another and time in town, this is a pretty safe assumption; in terms of kiting, deaths, and recharging, it's a much less safe assumption. However, most skilled farmers take care to avoid exactly these forms of preventable downtime, by over-gearing for content and maximizing resource regeneration/sustainability.
1-2. No Such Thing as Half a MP Level
Due to the integral nature of MP levels, finding breakpoints is the practical application; in order to find the breakpoint of an inequality, we need merely find the point where they are equal. A quick glance at the MP chart shows the monster health outpaces increased magic find, even at MP1. Therefore, only downtime can make a higher MP level more attractive. However, as DPS increases, DPSing time naturally goes down, increasing the relative amount of downtime in a given farming run. So what we need to find is a measure of downtime.
Remembering that downtime is a constant, eliminating other constants such as DPS*, and setting F1 to the lower MP level, we get:
Solving for w, we get:
Calculating the exact amount in seconds is too obsessive for the layperson, so what we want instead is a ratio of DPSing to downtime. In other words, if I ask you right now how many seconds you have of downtime per run, you probably wouldn't have an answer, but if I ask you whether your downtime is greater or less than 50%, you could probably tell me. Framing this downtime as a percentage of overall farming-run time for the lower MP level gives us:
Now it's simply a matter of applying this formula to MF and keyfarming scenarios.
2-1. MF/GF Chart
The chart below has two different types of breakpoints on it:
- The 0DT breakpoint assumes the character has 0% MF (or GF) from gear AND no Paragon levels whatsoever; however, it does assume 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor;
- The 300DT breakpoint assumes the character has 300% MF (or GF) from gear and/or paragon levels, as well as 5 stacks of Valor.
As a reminder, breakpoint values are the minimum percent of downtime per farming run at the listed MP level before graduating to the next MP level.
2.2 MF/GF conclusionsCode:MP 0DT 300DT 0 71.4 89.5 1 75.0 90.0 2 75.2 89.4 3 75.1 88.7 4 77.2 89.1 5 79.2 89.6 6 80.8 90.0 7 82.2 90.4 8 83.3 90.7 9 84.4 91.1
The TL;DR is: MP0 for Act 3, and MP1 for Acts 1 and 2, are awesome. Everything else pretty much sucks.
However, for you nitpickers out there, this is where the unclear definition of downtime becomes somewhat important.
For gold-finding, I think everyone agrees that killing whites is beneficial, and therefore it's almost impossible to graduate up to higher MPs while maintaining efficiency.
For loot-finding, auction house actions and the possible downtime aspect of killing whites (or if you don't kill whites, moving from one elite pack to another) enter the picture. Even then, it can very difficult for a serious farmer to graduate to a higher MP level while maintaining efficiency. For example, if you go on a 19-minute run killing 17 elites, finding one AH-worthy item which takes you 1 minute to list afterwards, your elite battles averaged a mere 20 seconds each, and you don't count whites or the elites you downed to get 5 stacks of NV (not even partially!), you still only have 80% downtime, which means you are staying at MP1 unless you have near-zero MF from gear or Paragon levels. Even if you're the most godly DPSer on your server, I can't imagine anyone who's ideal farming MP level is higher than 4; for 99% of the population, it's 0 or 1... as the TL;DR said.
2-3. Keyfinding chart
As a reminder, breakpoint values are the minimum percent of downtime per farming run at the listed MP level before graduating to the next MP level.
2.4 Keyfinding conclusionsCode:MP %DT 3 17.0 4 37.2 5 50.1 6 58.3 7 64.3 8 68.8 9 72.2
You might notice there are no entries for levels 0, 1 and 2. That's because the value is negative; if your downtime is zero or greater, increasing MP level benefits you! MP3 is the minimum MP level that anyone seriously farming keys should consider; for virtually every keyfarmer, MP5 is a much better goal to aim for.
Keyfinding also scales much better with increased MP level than MF and GF, although at the high MP levels it still likely becomes inefficient. However, 60% downtime isn't really that hard to imagine, especially since whites do absolutely nothing in the keyfinding process and should rightly be treated as a waste during downtime computations. Therefore, MP8 keyfarming runs aren't necessarily an undertaking reserved solely for the insane.
One thing to keep in mind though: Deaths (and extra kiting) both decrease farming efficiency. Don't try to farm something you can't handle.
If you have a very powerful character capable of easily handling the higher MP levels, this is an area where you actually enjoy a competitive advantage over other farmers... as opposed to, say, trying to out-farm Legendaries against a Tactical-Advantage spamming demon hunter with low defenses who runs MP1 Act1 over and over again. Very many characters can farm items efficiently; very few can farm keys well. As such, high-powered characters who aren't keyfarming are pretty much doing it wrong.
* Very nitpicky math note:SpoilerUpon eliminating DPS as a constant, w is no longer downtime in seconds, but downtime expressed as health. At first it seems weird, as if you're DPSing your stash when you're dumping into it, or DPSing the ground as you move. However, if you think of it from an economics opportunity-cost sort of angle, that is exactly what you're doing, and I wanted to eliminate the DPS constant as soon as possible to avoid rewriting it numerous times.
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21-10-2012, 04:26 #1
Choosing the Right Monster Power Level For Farming
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21-10-2012, 07:06 #2
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Re: Choosing the Right Monster Power Level For Farming
Interesting analysis, and it essentially matches my qualitative experience. Farming MP0 act 3 is by far the fastest way to get rares/legendaries, and farming the highest MP level you can reasonably manage is the best way to get keys.
Of course if you're looking for both the analysis becomes more complicated. I include a key boss in any of my farming runs, because why wouldn't you? At that point you have to choose how much you want to weight keys against regular loots before you can make a reasonable choice. However, if you can increase MP level without much decrease in downtime (by your metric, by a more typical metric, without much increase in run length) then it makes sense to do so.
Edit: you also don't seem to have accounted for the guaranteed yellow drop from elite packs, which further skews things in favor of MP0, although not by much, since 4 stat yellows are rarely worth anything.
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The thing is, if you only care about legendaries and keys, and can have a lot less downtime by skipping normal monsters, but lose a lot of XP in the process. Since most people care about all of them, and most would have very different MP levels for maximum efficiency for all of them, it starts to get really complicated. Only if you're high enough level to not care so much about XP does it get easier.
To make things more complicated, if you're a sprint barb, skipping and killing takes about the same time if you're playing on low monster power, but killing would take much longer on high monster power (therefore, if you do want to kill, you need to keep monster power lowers even if you want to have a strong emphasis on keys).
In the end, we all care about everything, but I agree with the general concept of the analysis, and actually use a spreadsheet that takes into account your paragon level and downtime to give you the relative efficiency of XP, MF and key finding for all MP levels.
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Excellent analysis; I like to see this kind of thing. Much like magicrectangle, it fits my experience too. I do end up running a higher Monster Power than theoretically optimal, as I just can't bring myself to give up the 20% move speed and dps of WotB. If monsters' hp is too low, I can't sustain it in 1.0.5 even with a mighty weapon, 48% crit chance, and Boon of Bul Kathos. I guess that's where math meets reality for me; the fun factor. XD
Hellfire rings are account-bound, though. On the other hand, they can easily roll stats that make them worth many hours of normal farming, so you have to take that into account too.
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The WotB issue isn't just about fun factor. Being able to keep WotB up increases DPS, and reduces travel time. It makes sense for you to make a more empirical (rather than theoretical) analysis. Simply time your run a few times on each MP level (5 times would be good, but 3 times is probably more practical, 5 is a lot of runs for each MP level). Divide the average run length for a given MP level by 1+MF (total MF expressed as decimal, not percent, including MF from gear, paragon, valor, and MP level), and whichever number comes out the lowest, that's the MP level you should be doing, from a loot perspective.
For an even more accurate number, rather than use 0.75% for the valor MF contribution, calculate the exact contribution (for elite drops anyway):
Note that the guaranteed extra drop has been ignored. In order to include it, we would need to know what percentage of loot we expect to get from trash mobs as opposed to elites. The contribution would tend to be small, so I'll just leave it ignored for now.
For keys, time the run just the same, but divide by key drop chance: 0.05 for MP0, 0.1*MPlevel for the other MP levels.
The (partially) experimental approach, while it doesn't offer the ability to generalize to any player as easily, takes into account all variables such as WotB uptime, and other things more specific to your class/build/playstyle.
Last edited by magicrectangle; 21-10-2012 at 22:08.
22-10-2012, 06:27 #7
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Nevertheless, there is a supply and there is a demand, so little manipulations like "account bound" will only do so much to stymie market forces.
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Even with all that WotB excitement, in the end testing for 1 hour doing alkaizer runs, I earned 25% more exp/hour at MP0 than MP4. And it's not a gear issue, as at MP4 I died once in an entire hour (to a lunatic ambush), and I kill everything extremely fast (a quick pass through is enough if they take enough ticks from tornadoes, though a rend needs to be added to kill the bigger stuff or the runners in 1 sweep). Even with more WotB uptime at MP4, everything dying instantly at MP0 just can't be matched.
I still need to test MP1~3, and I do believe I played a bit worse (made more mistakes) while doing the MP4 testing session, but still I doubt I can get more exp/hour at MP4 than I can get at MP0.
As for MF, with my gear I estimated (trying to take into account the extra drop chance that doesn't work on guaranteed elite drops using some relatively old statistics) it to scale about the same as XP does (1.3X XP and loot per kill/run at MP4 compared to MP0), so I would also get more loot/hour (or shall I say legendaries/hour, as those are the grand majority of anyone's income nowadays and even were so back in 1.0.4).
In the end, I think it would be best to just count xp/hour, figure out the increased run time and compare it to the increase (or decrease) in loot/hour or keys/hour. But that still doesn't account for runs where you skip normal monsters to maximize your loot/hour and keys/hour at the expense of a lot of xp/hour. To do that you need to count elites/hour or keys/hour to get a reasonable idea of whether or not you are gaining from running at higher MP. Of course to get meaningful results you need to do a lot more than "just 1 hour" sample size that I did, and run each MP level for at least a few hours. If anyone can get more XP/hour in MP1 over MP0 using a sprint/whirlwind barb testing 5 hours in each MP setting then I can start thinking more seriously about farming higher MP For anything other than keys.
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If F0/F4=1.25 and we assume 5-stack Valor is up continuously (obviously it's not, but we're simplifying here), then 1.25=[(x0+75)/(100+w)]/[(x0+45+75)/(457+w)]. Solving for w yields w=(1328*x+77100)/(x+300). If you have a radstar ruby socketed in your helm, w is about 582.5 (as a raw score), which would put your approximate downtimes as follows:
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This math does not compute for WW barbs, since now its much harder to sustain zerk the best way to find loot is the MPL where the health of the monsters enables you to keep zerk almost all time but at the same it must be the lowest possible MPL so u can kill monsters the fastest possible.
Look at my case for instance, i just cannot keep zerk on mpl 0-2, on 3 i strugle a little so i farm on MPL 4. Zerk not only increases your dps, but the best bennefit of it is that it reduces your downtime IMMENSELLY. It reduces kiting, it gives you insane speed and insane dps. So ... for barbs just keep that in mind when farming.


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''We haven't gone back to back all year, so it's a good confidence-builder for our team to know we can put two good performances together and hope to keep it rolling next week,'' said pivot Jarrod Mullen, whose solo try in the 43rd minute sparked Newcastle's scoring spurt.
Fullback Kevin Naiqama, a late replacement for Peter Mata'utia, ran 95metres to score eight minutes later, then dumped NSW winger Aku Uate touched down in the corner after a backline passing movement to stretch Newcastle's lead to 20-6 in the 57th minute.
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Though he could not explain why, Knights coach Wayne Bennett said his team showed composure and confidence when Parramatta applied the blowtorch early in the second half.
''We're doing things that the good teams do, and we're starting to do it two weeks in a row now. We wouldn't have won that game a month ago,'' Bennett said.
''We'd have lost it just after half-time when the pressure was really on.''
Skipper Danny Buderus said the Knights had regained their confidence through a willingness to work harder in the fundamental areas of the game, and were reaping the rewards.
''We're competing in the tackle, competing getting back onside, and those little things make the team more efficient,'' Buderus said.
''We're giving ourselves a chance to win with our ball control. There's a bit of a list there.
''That bye came at a good time for us. We got away and had a big think about the first half of the season, and obviously we want to finish off the season on a good note.
''We're playing for our fans but we're also playing for our coach and also the group we've got in there, so we've got some things we want to achieve.''
? Parramatta scored 36 straight points, turning a 12-6 deficit into a 42-12 lead, on their way to a 42-28 victory over the Knights in the NYC game.